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Any workspace, real or virtual, descends into messy chaos without someone actively organizing or cleaning things up. It's bad enough by yourself, but the minute it's shared with ot…

Why not just use Google Docs? The history is recorded. There are even plug ins which will play it back so you can see it.

It's always entertaining to try to understand these things from first principles. Color and skin color in particular are very complex things to measure and model. It's not just a p…

Yep. On mobile it was basically impossible to read. 2/3 of the page was covered in ads and pop ups. I figure if they don’t care about the readers’ experience then I don’t care to t…

One key turning point in my life was approaching Red Whittaker, the head of the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon. I knew who he was and had met him briefly before, but this…

He also wasn't bald when he started selling books. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-25-the-m...

No price. Ouch. If you have to ask, you can't afford it? "Teenage Engineering isn’t quoting a price publicly, instead directing interested parties to email the company directly." h…

Onshape is free in the browser as long as you are not doing commercial work. It’s a professional system from the founders of Solidworks that competes with all the top CAD tools.

Somehow I assumed that you were linking to this one: https://xkcd.com/927/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Motion_Picture_and_...

I'm old enough and lucky enough to have had my first computing experiences (1978-80) be on a teletype in our elementary school which was connected to a minicomputer that the town o…

I've had this bookmarked for a while. Fantastic resource. It's been on HN dozens of times since 2017. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14191577

I'm very used to tools which keep track of connections to documents based on internal IDs, not folder structure. It seems primitive to be so brittle. It seems even more stupid that…

I've been using the Codex app for a while (a few months) for a few types of coding projects, and then slowly using it for random organizational/productivity things with local folde…

So is it going to be cool again to wear Allbirds, in an ironic way? Or do I need to burn mine?

https://www.pandafold.app works but https://pandafold.app does not.

This is an amazing deep dive into color difference measurements and how sensitive the math is. The idea that we really need to save characters - bytes - in CSS when we have so many…

I've been using Codex (GPT-5.4 extra high) to code custom FeatureScript in Onshape (3D mechanical CAD software). It's challenging to get it to do TDD that involves any visual reaso…

Yes. Sarcasm. I have a pair of the first generation AirPods Max. They leave dents in my scalp if I wear them for any real amount of time. I've been an Apple person since the 1980s.…

Might as well be 3862 grams considering how much they hurt to wear for any length of time. I was also hoping this update would improve the ergonomics, but no. Still too heavy and n…

Yep. As much as the rest of it resonated with LLM coding experiences I'm having, the NFT thing is unfortunate.

This reminds me of the articles I occasionally see in the local newspaper about a restaurant that is closing down. So often it’s one that I’ve never heard of before that. To me, th…

I'd really love to see the prompt(s) you used with Claude. The way the article was written I mistakenly thought you would expand upon that in a footnote or sidebar.

Yep. Came to say the same thing. I'd only used Codex in VSCode and in the Codex app, and at least those have the same history, but my understanding is that the cloud and CLI versio…

Many have predicted the singularity, and I found this to be a useful take. I do note that Hans Moravec predicted in 1988's "Mind Children" that "computers suitable for humanlike ro…